Category: Courts

Thanks to Grits for Breakfast for reporting this quote by Judge Tom Price in the case of Ex Parte Wesley Ronald TULEY I think it is colossal hypocrisy to exclaim, “we are shocked, positively shocked,” that a person who has pleaded guilty pursuant to a negotiated plea bargain would never Read more…

Hearing in Paxton case to consider prosecutors’ push for another trial delay by Patrick Svitek,The Texas Tribune Oct. 3, 2017 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton‘s lawyers and the prosecutors handling the securities fraud case against him are preparing to debate a familiar topic Wednesday: whether his trial should be delayed Read more…

Jim Jenkins is to return to court on Thursday Oct 5th @ 1:30 PM in the 359th District Court at 207 W Philips St. Conroe TX for a status hearing. This is where the State, i.e. Ken Paxton’s AG office will tell the court if they plan to continue pursuing Read more…

Bad language but sound reporting. Also a good essay from Temple U. that discusses the issue at length. Unreasonable Certainty: A Call To Abandon “Reasonable Degree of Scientific Testimony” Terminology. The persistence of this term breeds the likelihood of confusion in at least two regards – an over-inflation of the Read more…

From The Marshall project 09.22.2017 Christy Perry, a Republican state representative and co-owner of a gun shop in Boise, regularly travels with her husband to gun shows to sell their wares. Voters come to her booth so often that her husband jokingly plunked a sign next to the AR-15s: “Gun talk Read more…

During a trial in which a Montgomery County man was accused of illegal voting in a special utility district, the defense counsel questioned the validity of two voters who were said by the state to have voted legally in the same election.
Like the defendant, the legal voters were temporary residents.
But, “they had money,” said David Glickler, the lawyer representing the state Attorney General’s office.
Such is the power in special districts around the state, often outposts of undeveloped land that are owned by developers, who in turn create mini-governments that tax new residents to cover the costs of development.

Never in Montgomery County right? Think again. I know of six examples in the RUD case alone and that is trivial compared to those who face life in prison or worse. Senator Ted Cruz has written that plea bargain false confessions account for up to 8 percent of cases. I Read more…

Grits For Breakfast Blog posted on the TPPF policy report – Balancing the Scales of Due Process: The Conservative Case for Grand Jury Reform in Texas The entire paper is a good read. Among the very important TPPF recomendations…. Entire Transcript or Record of Grand Jury Proceeding & able to Read more…